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Offline cassini

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Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
« Reply #45 on: April 30, 2018, 07:43:03 AM »
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  • Besides the fact that I, as far as physical nature is concerned, believe in stationary Earth which can be seen, depending on the metric or more broadly the topology employed, as the physical centre of the physical world.

    So your naming Bellarmine as a target of my criticism is misplaced, as are your assumptions about my beliefs (again based in false dichotomies created by your crypto-materialist views)

    But I know the level of your “research” into physics and arguments. Apropos Einstein, you quote extensively as authorities the work of two “social scientists”, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, who are notorious Social Constructivists and epistemological relativists, N.M. Gwynne, whose only qualifications are in languages and accounting, and Alfred Arthur Lynch, a dilettante engineer and politician.

    I state this not as an ad homiem but point to these facts because no actual arguments are given, merely statements like “General Theory [GTR], involves no major challenge to the intellect in order to be understood. [Einstein’s] Relativity is not merely nonsense, it is simple nonsense;” which amount to nothing more than appeals to their non-existent authority. Tensor calculus and differential geometry involve no major challenge to the intellect? I’m pretty sure every third year physics student I have ever known, including myself, would respectfully disagree. Again, no actual argument is ever made by you. Not one set of equations of motions is ever presented or solved: just scoffing at one thing after another, especially at any mathematics, without any logical structure linking one to the next and to a deductive conclusion.

    And I don’t even say these things as a believer in “Big Bang cosmology”.

    In fact, I’m a young Earth creationist who takes Genesis very seriously as a divinely revealed cosmogonic treatise that is not to be interpreted “allegorically”. I just don’t interpret it as a crypto-materialist. But then you obviously can’t get your head around what that means.

    If you wrote your comments in plain English, then others might know better your beliefs theosist. Why don't you come down to our level and then maybe we can understand what you are on about. To read you are a geocentrist (in our language) is a surprise, especially after calling us like minded believers, 'idiots.'

    Bellarmine was not an 'apple' geocentrist, but one of us, the physical earth stationary with the sun, moon and stars turning about us. He meant it as we see it.

    As regards Einstein, well I quote those I have reasoned who speak the truth and give the facts. But you begin your defence by immediately using the old ad hominem ploy, attack the person, that they are not 'educated' in Einstein's physics, so what could they know. After that the ad homeners hope what they say is put in doubt. You also confirm my point that if Einstein can be placed above the intelligence of most, with a few only that can reach that level of understanding, then what he writes cannot be challenged by the likes of Gwynne or me. Well I do not buy that and I thank the Gwynnes and van der Kamps of this world for showing us the truth. I have long come to the conclusion that your average human capable of thinking when it is pointed out that Einstein's theories are rubbish. But the secular world needs an Einstein to keep their heliocentrisdm alive, and the intellectually proud need something they can boast of understanding, so they are the only ones who get employed these days in the science of cosmology and 'theoretical' physics.

    When I said that the STR is nonsense to the intellect, and has been falsified so often it gets boring, I do so as a statement. If any want to challenge that, let them do so. Yes, even you can try. When I write it is simple nonsense, then someone should reply back saying show me. I am hardly going to make statements like that without being able to back them up, even using words that 'idiots' can understand.

    For example, the STR's Light and Mass. First I will quote from a book called Special Relativity, the University text by Wolfgang Ridler. Here is a question asked of your third year university students.

    Question 12: A man carrying a horizontal 20ft long pole runs ata speed v such that y(v)=2 into a 10foot long room and closes the door. Explain in the man's frame, in which the room is only 5ft long, how this is possible.

    Now this may be possible for your 'third year physics students' to swallow, but for me at any rate, a man carrying a 20 foot pole cannot get in to a 10 foot long room and close the door behing him unless it is 20 ft wide. But they mean a 10 ft square room. Having done that they are then getting a 20 ft pole into a 5ft long room. Now this is nonsense, nay, simple nonsense, no matter if you can invent a maths to get it done.

    Just one more aspecrt of the STR to show it is nonsense,
    TIME DILATION FACTOR.
    As the speed increases, time slows down. ‘This can be illustrated by a tale of twins [or two clocks]. One stays on Earth, while the other hurtles into space at extraordinary speed: the stay at home twin gets older faster.’ Of all the falsifications of Einstein’s theories none make a better story than the falsification of this absurdity. It began in 1972 with the publication of Professor Herbert Dingle’s new book ‘Science at the Crossroads.’ Now the thing is that this same professor was for many years one of Einstein’s most devout pupils. On page 105 of his Crossroads he writes: ‘To the best of my knowledge there is no one living who can give objective evidence that he is more competent in the subject than I am.’ Way back in 1922, three years after Einstein’s relativity theories, Dingle published the first book on the subject called Relativity for All. For fifty years he is associated with all the big-name relativist physicists of the era such as Einstein himself, Eddington, Tolman, Whittaker, Born, Shrodinger and Bridgman. Dingle’s ‘The Special Theory of Relativity’ became the standard textbook on the subject, and could be found in use in most universities of America and Europe. Indeed, it was he that provided one of the two articles on relativity in Encyclopaedia Britannica. To his credit, Dingle had his own ‘eureka’ moment and saw the errors in Einstein’s theory.

    The gist of Dingle’s long if simple explanation is that Einstein’s relativity theory also requires that at great speed each of two measuring rods must be shorter than each other: two masses must attain weights greater than each other: two clocks must work faster than each other: and two twins must age more slowly than each other. Yes, Einstein’s relativity requires us to accept that, in the case of the twins, for example, where one twin is blasted off into space at the speed of light and the other remains on Earth; it makes no difference mathematically which twin ages the slower, for, with Einstein’s theory of light-speed, there is no difference between rest and motion. Thus for the theory to be viable, both twins must get younger (and older) than the other.

    ‘Unless this [anomaly] is answerable, the theory unavoidably requires that A works more slowly than B and B more slowly than A – which it requires no super-intelligence to see is impossible. Now, clearly, a theory that requires impossibility cannot be true, and scientific integrity requires, therefore, either that the question just posed shall be answered, or else that the theory shall be acknowledged to be false.’ --- A.S. Eddington.

    ‘Beyond even the imagination of Dean Swift; Gulliver regarded the Lilliputians as a race of dwarfs; and the Lilliputians regarded Gulliver as a giant. That is natural. If the Lilliputians had appeared dwarfs to Gulliver, and Gulliver had appeared a dwarf to the Lilliputians – but no; that is too absurd even for fiction, and is an idea only to be found in the sober pages of science.’--- A.S. Eddington: Space, Time and Gravitation,

    Hopefully I have shown readers anyway, that Einstein's STR is nonsense, even if you Theosist and all those poor third year students think it is intellectually marvellous stuff.



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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #46 on: April 30, 2018, 02:54:44 PM »
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  • Relativity is nonsense.


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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #47 on: April 30, 2018, 07:38:34 PM »
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  • Question 12: A man carrying a horizontal 20-ft long pole runs at a speed v such that y(v)=2 into a 10-foot long room and closes the door. Explain in the man's frame, in which the room is only 5-ft long, how this is possible.

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    In the man's frame (of reference), this would be possible by the following sequence of events:
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    The man is running extremely fast, such that y(v) refers to a function of v which equals 2. The function could be one that answers the question, "How many times the speed of light is this variable (v)?" or some such relation, wherein the room appears to the man to be half as long as it is described such that 10/2 = 5 ("in the man's frame" of reference). In any event, the man's speed is far too great for him to have time to stop once he enters the room, and consequently, his entire body along with the pole he carries, is splattered onto the wall at the far end of the tiny (5-foot long) room, which wall angles slightly toward the back side of the partially opened door, this entrance door only part way swung open INTO the room, such that the emanating effusion of random body particles and pole fragments being splashed in the room hits the back side of the door first, causing it to close before said splashing material has had a chance to slow the door down and/or to keep it from closing. End of story.
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    P.S. A man's body is the man and the man's body is composed of the sum of its parts. While the man may not have consciously closed the door, the man's body parts by pushing the door caused it to close, the sum of the man's body parts being the man, therefore, the man closed the door. QED.

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    A similar solution was given for a problem that asked, how to determine the physical height of the leaning tower of Pisa using only a barometer.
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    The answer was, climb to the top of the tower and using a stopwatch, carefully and precisely time how long it takes for the perfectly good barometer falling to the ground, to smash into a bazillion pieces. Then use that time to find the distance fallen, with the acceleration of 32 feet per second per second, by way of the formula, s = ut + 1/2 at² -- where s is the distance, u is an initial velocity, a the acceleration, and t is time. If starting from rest the first term can be ignored giving:  s = 1/2 at². Therefore a three-second fall (where t2 = 32 = 9 sec2) becomes (1/2)(32)(9) = 144 ft.
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    Offline Neil Obstat

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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #48 on: April 30, 2018, 08:03:26 PM »
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    Re-reading my post, above, I realized I had left out one thing. The leaning tower of Piza problem said "using only a barometer" but my answer said "using a stopwatch." The answer should also say that the stopwatch was borrowed, and it was returned intact after timing the fall of the barometer. Therefore, the barometer was used but the stopwatch was returned intact. 
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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #49 on: May 01, 2018, 05:04:44 AM »
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  • NEIL: Really enjoyed your explanation as to how a man carrying a 20 foot pole can get into a 10 foot square room and closed the door behind him. No 'idiot' there, is there? You could be up for the next Nobel prize for physics with it Neil.

    But back to the influence this nonsense has on other things. Here is more Special Theory of Relativity nonsense just for Theosist:

    The Clock Fraud

    ‘Experiments carrying atomic clocks around the Earth on jumbo jets have verified this scenario [relativity].’ --- Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen [1]

    ‘The clock in the aircraft flying towards the west records more time than the twin travelling in the opposite direction.’ --- Stephen Hawking. [2]

    Now look up Paul Davies’s How to Build a Time Machine [3] and one will find the same old story about the supposed verification of Einstein’s Special Theory attained in 1971 when they placed clocks in aeroplanes and pitted them against each another. Elsewhere we find assertions that the Special Theory has been proven many times in a laboratory, but the truth is something else:   

    ‘Tests that purported to confirm the requirement of Special relativity, that moving macroscopic clocks run slow, were carried out by Hafele & Keating by flying atomic clocks in opposite directions around the Earth. These tests have been shown to be seriously flawed and to provide no such evidence (Kelly 1995). That paper relied on estimates derived from the graphs published in 1972 by Hafele and Keating.[4] The original test results, contained in an internal report (Hafele, 1971) have now been obtained direct from the United States Naval Observat­ory (USNO). These confirm that the conclusions in Kelly (1995) are correct. Hafele, in that report stated: “Most people (including myself) would be reluctant to agree that the time gained by any one of the clocks is indicative of anything” and “the difference between theory and measurement is disturbing.” A full analysis of the shortcomings of the tests is given in a separate paper. This shows that a test, with an accurate improvement of two orders of magnitude, would be required before any credence could be placed in the results of such a test… Further practical proof of the Sagnac effect is in the measurement of the relative time keeping of standard clock-stations around the Earth. It is found that, when signals are sent from one station to another, allowance has to be made for the fact that the signals do not travel at the same speed eastward and westward around the globe (Saburi et al, 1976). [5][6]

    I attended a lecture in Trinity College Dublin where Kelly spoke. After the lecture some physics teachers from Trinity stood up and told the audience that Kelly really disdn't understand the physics involved. The next day no doubt they were teaching their crap to the next generation of Theosists.

    As regards other so-called ‘laboratory proofs’ for the STR; well space prevents me from entering this aspect of the debate in any real depth.[7] Suffice to say that when you hear them say this you must know that they speak about supposed tests on the behaviour of high velocity particles of an atom. They talk about measuring velocity and mass of a particle that conform to the STR. But the truth is, as Professor Waldron of Ulster Polytechnic says in Dingle’s book, that such measurements have never been validated. Indeed, as Dingle himself says, the velocity, mass and lifetime of a hypothetical atomic-particle cannot be measured for the simple reason that their existence and properties have all to be inferred on theoretical grounds.

    ‘It is like claiming, as a proof that a man always speaks the truth, the fact that he says he does… Through long familiarity with the world, physicists have unconsciously come to believe that mass, time, distance, and such terms mean the same for hypothetical particles as for the senses. They have forgotten that their world is metaphorical, and interpret the language literally.’[8]

    Hands up who saw Stephen Spielberg’s movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind? If you have, surely you remember when the alien spacecraft landed on Earth after that impressive musical communication between the scientists and the aliens, an exchange of people took place, Remember as each person disembarked someone called out their names and dates of ‘disappearance’? As it turned out most of them were fighter pilots of the Second World War that presumably had gone missing at the time. As each came out from the saucer, looking dazed of course, but physically young men, lean and fit, one of the many white coated scientists present was scripted to say: ‘Einstein was right.’ Did you catch it? So, there we are, proof provided by the alien movie Close Encounters, ‘Einstein was right’ men aged much slower when flying in space.





    [1] Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen: The Science of Discworld, op. cit., p.80.

    [2] Stephen Hawking: The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Books, 2001, p.9.

    [3] Paul Davies: How…Time Machine, Allan Lane, Penguin Press, 2001, p.10.

    [4] J.C. Hafele and R.E. Keating:, Science, 1972, pp.166-170.

    [5] Y. Saburi, M.Yamamoto and K. Harada, 1976 IEEE Trans. 1M25 No 4 473-7.

    [6] A.G. Kelly: op. cit., pp.7-8.

    [7] For a complete review see N.M. Gwynne’s Einstein and Modern Physics.

    [8] H. Dingle: op. cit., p.233.




    Offline aryzia

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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #50 on: May 01, 2018, 08:23:35 AM »
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  • Copernicus' reasoning according to Satan. The guy was an occultist. Why would the OP suggest reasoning and Copernicus together as if there were actually reason in his writings? The more they try, the more they post, the more the global malefactors reveal about themselves and the twisted roots of the Copernican doctrine of the globe. And sadly, of their foolishness in attempting to promote the lie.

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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #51 on: May 01, 2018, 06:05:58 PM »
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  • NEIL: Really enjoyed your explanation as to how a man carrying a 20 foot pole can get into a 10 foot square room and closed the door behind him. No 'idiot' there, is there? You could be up for the next Nobel prize for physics with it Neil.

    But back to the influence this nonsense has on other things. Here is more Special Theory of Relativity nonsense just for Theosist:

    The Clock Fraud

    ‘Experiments carrying atomic clocks around the Earth on jumbo jets have verified this scenario [relativity].’ --- Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen [1]

    ‘The clock in the aircraft flying towards the west records more time than the twin travelling in the opposite direction.’ --- Stephen Hawking. [2]
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    You're welcome.
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    The next time I get the chance to run opposing atomic clocks in aircraft, I'll let you know.
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    But if Stephen Hawking had anything to "say" about it, I'd have my doubts it was reliable.
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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #52 on: May 02, 2018, 06:29:25 AM »
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  • Science's religion is math. 
    So was the pythagoreans, well, that and Ba'al worship. 

    The sun is not 93 M miles away. 



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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #53 on: May 04, 2018, 12:55:03 AM »
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    I can't figure something out. 
    I have no idea why I keep reading flat-earther posts expecting to find the first intelligent thing they've said.
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    Still waiting but no cigar.
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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #54 on: May 04, 2018, 06:10:45 AM »
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  • I here you Neil.  It's the same argument rehashed over and over.  All the usual players are saying the same things for months.

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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #55 on: May 07, 2018, 06:25:09 PM »
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  • The sun is not 93 M miles away.
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    M means a thousand in Roman Numerals.  Who said the sun is 93,000 miles away? 

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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #56 on: May 08, 2018, 05:27:27 PM »
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    M means a thousand in Roman Numerals.  Who said the sun is 93,000 miles away?
    Good thing he wasn't writing in Roman Numerals then you silly pedant. 

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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #57 on: May 08, 2018, 10:43:41 PM »
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  • I here you Neil.  It's the same argument rehashed over and over.  All the usual players are saying the same things for months.
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    Some joined CI just for this purpose and have remained just to promote flat-earthism.
    They're using CathInfo as an advertising platform for their pet false-god theory, their golden-calf bad hypothesis.
    It's a lot like promoting evolution or Buddhism or Satanism -- because Ps. 95,5: All the gods of the heathen are devils.
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    Re: Copernicus's reasoning that the universe and the earth are global
    « Reply #58 on: May 27, 2018, 01:48:54 AM »
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    Wrong answer. Try again.  :ready-to-eat:
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    A square park has a running track around it where people come to get exercise most days of fair weather. On the north side there is a water fountain alongside the track located x feet west of the northeast corner of the park. Jill and Nancy are running counterclockwise around the track together, when Nancy stops to get a drink at the fountain but Jill keeps running along the track. The track measures 3x feet from the fountain to the northwest corner, where Jill turns left and heads south on the track. Nancy decides to cut across the park and runs diagonally toward the southwest corner where she meets Jill without stopping, and they continue running together, east along the south side of the park. The two girls run at the same rate in all these situations. How far
    east, in terms of x, was Jill from the northwest corner when Nancy finished her drink and began to cut across the park to meet her?
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    ("/" means "divided by" ; (x)(3) means "x times three")

    (A)  (square root of 3x) feet
    (B)  x feet
    (C)  2x feet
    (D)  (x)(square root of 3) /(2) feet
    (E)  0.5x feet

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    Still no takers? It's a fun problem, really.
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